linda fishman is the final speaker in the lineup. she's the senior vice president of public policy analysis and development for the american hospital association. she came to aha from cms if you don't mind the acronyms. before that service on the staff of the senate finance committee, i don't know if you were there at the same time, linda basically has had a big hand in almost every piece of medicare legislation for the last generation so we are very pleased to have you. [laughter] >> she didn't like that. >> you are personally being held responsible for the good and the bad. but today we've asked you to lay out some of the challenges to the hospital segment income for me to this recent medicare rule that mark told us about and what the impact might be of the changes to that rule. linda, thank you very much for being willing to join us here. >> thank you, ed -- [inaudible] >> let it go. >> hello? okay. thank you. i'm really happy to be here today to talk about hospital response to the midnight rule and i must say mark did a very thor

. >> from a majority side of the finance committee, linda fishman. >> fishman left to become a lobbyistwith the drug manufacturer amgen. >> not the least of all but the energy and commerce committee staff who toiled so hard for us, chief of staff pat morrissey. >> morrissey took a job lobbying for drug companies novartis and hoffman-laroche. >> and jeremy allen. >> he went to johnson and johnson. >> kathleen weldon and jim barnett. >> she went to lobby for biogen, a biotech company. he left to lobby for hoffman-laroche. >> they did a marvelous job for this house and we owe them a debt. thank you all. >> we owe them all right. wow. yeah, i mean, this happens -- it happens with every bill. i mean, i think -- what was striking about that is congressman tauzin actually sort of -- if we sent a resume out on all of their behalf, by sort of doing a roll call in his remarks. but look, i mean, that -- the steve kroft piece was stunning in that i think he caught tauzin just, oddly flat-footed. i mean, i think we've seen in reading his face, he seemed almost flat-footed that the question would be